[Jeanne Claude/Christo] Exceptional Letter Signed 6pp.1968 Album Famille18

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[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO]
"Family Album" .- 18
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Original Handwritten Letter signed
of
Jeanne-Claude
(1935-2009)
to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon
May 1968
6 Pages entirely written by the artist,
signed letter, on printed letterhead ("Memo from Christo")
3 double-sided sheets, format approximately 25.5x18cm
Very very interesting letter
, undated,
but which according to the content must be
May 1968
In this letter, Jeanne-Claude announces to her father the heavily loaded artistic program for the month of June and future projects:
various trips to Europe (including their son Cyril), exhibitions (including the famous Documenta IV, so important for the future ...), but also an exhibition at MOMA, Orangerie, Spoleto, Kunsthalle in Bern, etc.
She mentioned the funding difficulties due to the gigantic size of the works presented,
as well as the success and international artistic recognition of Christo, who promises more and more clearly ...
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Very important document !!!
Rare and Precious,
an unlikely encounter ....
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Chronological and biographical references
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
,
commonly
Christo
, is the
artist name
under which is identified the common work of
Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff, born June 13, 1935 in Gabrovo in Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, also born June 13, 1935 in Casablanca in Morocco and died November 18, 2009 in New York.
This couple of contemporary artists (“who packs geography and history”) made themselves famous for their packaged objects. Naturalized Americans, they lived in New York in the SoHo district.
Christo Javacheff
was born in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, June 13, 1935.
He calls himself a Macedonian Bulgarian of Czech origin. His father owned a chemical factory and his mother was secretary general of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia until 1931. His mother had fled Macedonia in 1913. Christo's family has served as a refuge for artists and friends fleeing the Allied bombing of cities. Christo's childhood memories also include the bodies of partisans executed in the streets and the entry of the Red Army into Bulgaria in 1944. Christo's father was harassed and imprisoned by the new communist regime for "sabotage". We can therefore say that Christo's childhood was quite rough and that it surely had a significant impact on the artist. Very early on he had contact with art. At the age of 6, he made portraits of many women in the village. In 1953, he began his artistic training at the Beaux Arts in Sofia where he studied painting, sculpture and architecture until 1956. It is responsible, by the power in place, to arrange the surroundings of the Orient-Express train to give Western passengers a cheerful image of Bulgaria. However, due to the regime's strong propaganda, only true supporters of the Communist Party could access the diploma, which Christo was not. Indeed, Christo challenged the system by painting canvases going against the ideology (like peasants resting). He therefore had some problems with Socialist Realism, which was the norm and which imposed a Marxist-Leninist treatment of subjects as well as style. In 1956 he decided to flee to Vienna.
Then he moved to Paris in 1958.
To live he made oil portraits that he signed with his name "Javacheff", it was while delivering the portrait of the wife of General Jacques de Guillebon, director of the École Polytechnique, that he met their daughter Jeanne-Claude.
In 1963, he rubbed shoulders with the group of new realists.
His first works are abstract paintings and packaging of objects (bottles, cans, cartons, tables, etc.) or living models in canvas or plastic.
Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon
is French.
She was born in Casablanca in Morocco on June 13, 1935 - Christo and she would have been born the same day at the same time.
She passed her baccalaureate in philosophy in 1952 in Tunis.
They meet in 1958
, year which marks the beginning of their artistic collaboration.
Christo is rather the artist, and Jeanne-Claude the organizer: "The creations intended for the outside are signed
by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the drawings by Christo ”.
After emigrating to the United States in 1964 and settling in New York, they began to carry out large-scale projects, intervening directly and temporarily on buildings, monuments or entire landscapes.
Jeanne-Claude died in November 2009, in New York, following a ruptured aneurysm.
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Precilda Fechheimer
, mother of Jeanne-Claude:
Marriages with Léon Denat, and 10.01.1947 with Jacques de Guillebon (1909-1985)
Child of the 1st marriage: Jeanne-Claude 13.06.1935
Children of the 2nd marriage: Joyce-May de Guillebon,
Norbert, count of Guillebon & Alexandra de Guillebon
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Jacques de Guillebon
(born October 13, 1909 in Lunéville - died February 25, 1985 in Paris) whom Jeanne-Claude calls "Papa"
is a French general, Companion of the Liberation.
A former student of the École Polytechnique (X1930), he was sent to the French Somali Coast in 1935, then to the Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment of Chad in French Equatorial Africa in May 1939.
After the Appeal of June 18, then captain, he participated in the rallying of the territory of Chad to free France on August 26, 1940, being worth to him to be condemned to death and to the degradation by the Military court of Riom for “attack with the external security of the State ”.
On July 14, 1941, Jacques de Guillebon was appointed Companion of the Liberation.
Guillebon was promoted to squadron commander and artillery commander in Chad in April 1942, then he was appointed chief of staff of the Leclerc Column in November 1942. He takes part in these functions in the second Fezzan campaign.
Chief of Staff of Force L, he participated in the Tunisian campaign. He was injured there by a shrapnel.
Deputy Chief of Staff of the 2nd Armored Division, he was repatriated to Great Britain in April 1944.
He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy
On August 21, 1944, the commander of Guillebon was sent by Leclerc to Versailles to test the resistance of the German troops; this mission will allow the liberation of Paris by the 2 ° DB and the allied troops, convincing General Eisenhower - who intended to go directly to the east of France and Germany - that Paris was actionable.
Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.
He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in September 1944 and distinguished himself in the Champagne campaign, then in the Marne and the Meurthe.
Guillebon takes Fontenay and Glonville on September 19, 1944. He managed to liberate nine villages between October 31 and November 1, capturing more than three hundred prisoners. He then successively took Badonviller, Bréménil, Petitmont-Val, Châtillon, Cirey.
He entered Strasbourg, with an American battalion, through the bridges of the Ill and obtained the surrender of all the neighboring blockhouses.
He ended the war in Berchtesgaden where he flew the French flag.
Promoted colonel in June 1945, he was sent to Indochina in November 1945.
Marriage with Précilda on 01/01/1947, Jeanne-Claude is 12 years old ...
He was military attaché in Berne from 1948 to 1951, then auditor of the Center for Advanced Military Studies (CHEM).
He is appointed commander of the
Subdivision of Gabès
and the Southern Tunisian Territories in 1952, then was promoted to brigadier in 1955.
He commanded the École Polytechnique from 1957 to 1959
.
He was appointed member of the Council of the Order of the Liberation in 1958.
Promoted to major general in Mars 1959, he was appointed commander of the Fifth Military Region in 1961. He became general of the corps in 1962.
General de Guillebon was director of the Institute for Advanced National Defense Studies (IHEDN) and the Center for Advanced Military Studies (CHEM) from 1966 to 1969.
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Jeanne-Claude married in 1959 to
Philippe Planchon when she was already pregnant with Christo,
ephemeral marriage, the separation will take place a few weeks later and she will live from this moment on with Christo ...
this separation will of course cause some clashes with his parents (tradition requires ...), soon dissipated however
Cyril Javacheff
, the only son of Jeanne-Claude and Christo was born on May 11, 1960,
he became a poet and writer
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I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo
[JEANNE CLAUDE / CHRISTO] "Family Album" .- 18 - Original Handwritten Letter signed of   Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) to his Father, General Jacques de Guillebon May 1968 6 Pages entirely written by the artist,   Very very interesting letter, undated,      _ Very important document !!!     Rare and Precious, an unlikely encounter .... - Chronological and biographical references Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Then he moved to Paris in 1958. Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon is French.   - Precilda Fechheimer, mother of Jeanne-Claude: - is a French general, Companion of the Liberation. He landed on August 1, 1944 in Normandy Guillebon is one of the first to enter Paris.   -     he became a poet and writer                  _                       I am Charlie Hebdo